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good afternoon, and welcome to the washington substitute. i'm rob, the executive director, and i'm delighted to see all of you here today. i think the interest in foreign policy in the wake of our presidential election is certainly evident by the remotely standing crowd we have here today. we are now already into the process of transition, transition even with the same president, transitions are the most fluid and receptive moments in the are presidential cycle to impact the policy process, and so i'm -- i take it as a good sign there's so much interest in the foreign policy process by your presence here today. now, i think that the transition from a first to a second obama administration may, of course, begin the day after an election, but it doesn't end on inauguration day. this process is going to continue for some time. as the president's new or old team takes shape and where as necessary, seeks con fir nation, goes through reassessment, definition of priorities and opportunities and as other issues, domestic issues, the fiscal cliff, fo
good afternoon, and welcome to the washington substitute. i'm rob, the executive director, and i'm delighted to see all of you here today. i think the interest in foreign policy in the wake of our presidential election is certainly evident by the remotely standing crowd we have here today. we are now already into the process of transition, transition even with the same president, transitions are the most fluid and receptive moments in the are presidential cycle to impact the policy process, and...
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money is coming in from washington. certainly if you look at what the state of texas has done, $2.3 billion to the state has come to the state. .. if you look at facebook border statistics compared to the national statistics, the border is safer, at least those numbers, murder rates and all of that, and take city by city for a hundred thousand, you will see that border areas have less murders and assaults and all of that. now, i don't want to get into the definitional debate as to what is still over because we can certainly talk about it, but we can talk about what spillover is. >> you commented a good bit, enyou worked, yourself, a sponsor for additional resources, and i'm grateful for you doing that, but you brought us the regime's reports. to say that it's improper to say there's washington in denial, to attack two of our nation's senior military professionals like you did, and when they were merely giving their reflection of what's gone on based on their decades of experience, i think you're dead wrong, and i -- i w
money is coming in from washington. certainly if you look at what the state of texas has done, $2.3 billion to the state has come to the state. .. if you look at facebook border statistics compared to the national statistics, the border is safer, at least those numbers, murder rates and all of that, and take city by city for a hundred thousand, you will see that border areas have less murders and assaults and all of that. now, i don't want to get into the definitional debate as to what is still...
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that's also the washington term. what it means of the senate bill to a committee and you have a hearing. you have oversight hearings and the mark of the bill and you have an amendment and tivo. you go to the house and senate. you go to the conference and the senate bill to the president that needs to be signed. they don't do that anymore. even the transportation bill, which they did finally get done this year, it went through a procedure because the house never passed the bill. but they round out getting a transportation bill. it's a combination of things. modern technology and frankly it is a 24/7 news meeting. you stick your foot in your mouth now, you have a real problem. it is the fact that the members leave their families back home. you can't be a good legislator who copies a week. you have to work at it. so the combination of those things that contributed to the partisanship and the gridlock that we have now, but the answer is humble. it is called leadership. men and women of goodwill, republicans and democrats
that's also the washington term. what it means of the senate bill to a committee and you have a hearing. you have oversight hearings and the mark of the bill and you have an amendment and tivo. you go to the house and senate. you go to the conference and the senate bill to the president that needs to be signed. they don't do that anymore. even the transportation bill, which they did finally get done this year, it went through a procedure because the house never passed the bill. but they round...
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>> david, and george washington university. the private sector and the public sector need work together. i was wondering what the legislation in the post lieberman collins world, with anything had changed? because we see that with some of the oil companies that liability protection has proprietary information and we understand that they are more aware of what works. >> that is the perfect question. thank you. how about scenario change? >> i think of it in two major ways. one, dmitri talked about a lot of liability issues. the legislation will reduce those concerns. even if the company is negligent and they use these sharing models to share information, that information is not discoverable. if they are negligent, they will be sued. but not because they shared information with the government and partners. we want to facilitate that so people know they can take appropriate action. i would think that that would be a major change. also, in terms of the liability issues, the companies had met these minimal standards, even if the atta
>> david, and george washington university. the private sector and the public sector need work together. i was wondering what the legislation in the post lieberman collins world, with anything had changed? because we see that with some of the oil companies that liability protection has proprietary information and we understand that they are more aware of what works. >> that is the perfect question. thank you. how about scenario change? >> i think of it in two major ways. one,...
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that's a dysfunction of washington. not only do not do overs say we don't legislate properly on the floor in terms of having a position to have a chance to change some and that obviously would benefit the country in the long run versus benefit the political process of moving the bill across the floor. >> what are these recommendations will you try and get? >> will be a negotiation because we won't get everyman that we want. there's a lot of things i like to see. this is just a small part. this is $6.9 billion a year, just $6.9. a year. not all of this would be savings because some you transferring now. you probably cut $4 billion a year in savings. but that is where billion dollars he would take away from a procurement of aircraft or new rifles and machine guns. remember, we've some of the oldest weaponry for troops in the world in terms of hand-to-hand weapons. we are behind the rest of the world, so we're going to spend a whole lot more in things that don't have anything to do with fighting men than things to do. so w
that's a dysfunction of washington. not only do not do overs say we don't legislate properly on the floor in terms of having a position to have a chance to change some and that obviously would benefit the country in the long run versus benefit the political process of moving the bill across the floor. >> what are these recommendations will you try and get? >> will be a negotiation because we won't get everyman that we want. there's a lot of things i like to see. this is just a small...
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washington refused to take any. and franklin -- ben franklin would be very adamant there should be no salary. what they did do, they did make clear that whatever salary is could not be augmented during your turn. does the first part of the virginia plan. i don't think the salary was never the issue. now whether people were able to capitalize in terms of future speaking engagements and endorsements for a medical bill to the point of our presidential candidates is back in the 90s. that's a different question. technically, souders itself wasn't a big issue. by the way, everybody assumed whoever was running for president, they might be the power. they might be devout or money. >> right behind you. yeah. >> for years i wondered, who is one elect her? what is one's name? and now i really don't care. [laughter] i used to wonder. >> you know, i don't know a single electors name. with about 135 people. does anyone know analects are poor and electors name? they are just statements of people's imagination. they are clearly par
washington refused to take any. and franklin -- ben franklin would be very adamant there should be no salary. what they did do, they did make clear that whatever salary is could not be augmented during your turn. does the first part of the virginia plan. i don't think the salary was never the issue. now whether people were able to capitalize in terms of future speaking engagements and endorsements for a medical bill to the point of our presidential candidates is back in the 90s. that's a...
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they use a weird account thing in washington. a dollar for dollar reduction in the budget the first time, i think, in fifty years or that took place and he got that done. it required working, sending a limo secretly to the senate to bring the senator to, bird, i believe it was to the white house to come in and to be courted in effect and held up high and, you know, be beloved by the junior president of the united states, his junior when they were in the senate together and he got the most significant civil rights legislation passed in american history. all in six weeks. all because of leadership. all because he if not let go. it it required grabbing people by the shoulder and not letting them leave until they decided they were going support him. that's how it required. if that required dirk zen that it would be shameful to pose the civil right legislation. that's what it required. if it was to pay home imagine to someone who needed to have home imagine paid to them in order to change the segregation dispute he did. my pound is th
they use a weird account thing in washington. a dollar for dollar reduction in the budget the first time, i think, in fifty years or that took place and he got that done. it required working, sending a limo secretly to the senate to bring the senator to, bird, i believe it was to the white house to come in and to be courted in effect and held up high and, you know, be beloved by the junior president of the united states, his junior when they were in the senate together and he got the most...
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he's been a guest here on "washington journal." thank you, mr. prible. >> guest: thank you. >> just a few minutes ago, i called vice president bush to congratulate him on his back jury. -- of the durie. i know i speak for all of you in the american people when i say you will be our president and work with him. this nation faces major challenges ahead and we must work together. >> i just received a telephone call from governor dukakis. [cheers and applause] and i want you to know, he was most gracious. his call was personal, genuinely friendly and it is in the great tradition of american politics. >> next, fema administrator craig fugate and red cross advisory charley shimanski give an update on hurricane cindy response efforts. they discussed the need for food and shelter assistance and blood donations. after the conference >> caller: attracted to members of congress about how their home districts fared in the storm. >> good morning, everybody. although wide operations search and rescue is a much the first task on the we are very much in response
he's been a guest here on "washington journal." thank you, mr. prible. >> guest: thank you. >> just a few minutes ago, i called vice president bush to congratulate him on his back jury. -- of the durie. i know i speak for all of you in the american people when i say you will be our president and work with him. this nation faces major challenges ahead and we must work together. >> i just received a telephone call from governor dukakis. [cheers and applause] and i want...
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they lost its voice in washington. they were in congress for two years, and he does not want to look at or be responsible for the record. the record is one of liberal spending, one of an out of touch representative. upstate new york needs someone who has the courage to do what he or she says they'll do. upstate deserves to have a representative who is accessible, someone who will listen, someone who will be their voice in washington, someone who won't play cat and mouse and dodge debates and dodge facing our devoters here. i'm from here, i love upstate new york. it is my home. i'm asking for your support and ask for your vote on november the 6th. thank you so much. >> moderator: mr. maffei, you have 60 seconds for your closing statement to the voters. maffei: i'm pleased, and this is an important election. this matters so much to central new york. look, i was born and raised here in the city of syracuse, and if not for decent public schools, i'd be a nobody, and going to work in my family small business, i learn a lot
they lost its voice in washington. they were in congress for two years, and he does not want to look at or be responsible for the record. the record is one of liberal spending, one of an out of touch representative. upstate new york needs someone who has the courage to do what he or she says they'll do. upstate deserves to have a representative who is accessible, someone who will listen, someone who will be their voice in washington, someone who won't play cat and mouse and dodge debates and...
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>> as important as one of the nationally read papers were very anxious that when george washington understands the tuition they really are not lawyers in the public. >> it's true they are different. >> let's now talk about -- >> the other point that i was trying to make is that these are public but they are also state universities, and they have public obligations to the states. and so, they do maintain lowest possible cost to the state residents. to students from outside of the state for whom they receive no money from california were from china they are private institutions coming and yet the actual costs are much less than most other private institutions, but you have to understand and i think that we try to explain we are really only truly publicly financed for our in-state students and that's where our priorities are in keeping the low-cost from out of state we will provide you with the opportunity to attend but we are a private institution to you folks. we are competing to you as a pile that institution. is that we need to think about where the report fits into this and we talked about t
>> as important as one of the nationally read papers were very anxious that when george washington understands the tuition they really are not lawyers in the public. >> it's true they are different. >> let's now talk about -- >> the other point that i was trying to make is that these are public but they are also state universities, and they have public obligations to the states. and so, they do maintain lowest possible cost to the state residents. to students from...
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yes, go ahead. >> jack, washington. i just want to pick -- >> brevity will get gold stars. >> sorry? >> brevity gets gold stars. >> china's oil economy is half imported order from the middle east and north africa, evacuated 30,000 chinese from libya in that period of time of unrest. the question i raise is the need for china to stabilize sources of oil and energy reserves from that part of the world to lead to the same kind of ambition to sustain that with a geopolitical force in the form of a blue water navy as we have over the last 60-70 years. does that lead to the conflict we're talking about here? >> yes, sir? >> bill gram, canada. maybe a quick comment on the resource issue. i take issue with whether or not it's better to know what's there or not there. canada and the united states have an interesting discussion about the border between alaska and northern canada -- >> ambiguity. >> better off when it was terrorists knowing us, and not when you knew how many barrel of oil contributed to each nation's economy. that
yes, go ahead. >> jack, washington. i just want to pick -- >> brevity will get gold stars. >> sorry? >> brevity gets gold stars. >> china's oil economy is half imported order from the middle east and north africa, evacuated 30,000 chinese from libya in that period of time of unrest. the question i raise is the need for china to stabilize sources of oil and energy reserves from that part of the world to lead to the same kind of ambition to sustain that with a...
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a novel concept here in washington. that is a major reason why we reject short-sided politics of spending promises that result in long term cost to taxpayers. of course, our state increased state debt approximately a billion dollars a year for 20 years, but since i took office, first year, we paid down $500 million in state debt, and this year, about a $1.5 billion. increasing a billion dollars every year, to balance the budget, they borrowed more money. remember the stimulus that begun projects like high speed rail. in states without the financial support to continue them. you know, the federal government offered us $2.6 billion and didn't understand why i didn't want to bill the high speed rail project from orlando to tampa, 84 miles. the last pitch was it's a good tourist attraction. [laughter] people didn't understand why we turned it down, but here was the deal, and i think you still might be able to get it. you get $2.6 billion a year, okay? now, if you look -- you got to build the track and the train, historicall
a novel concept here in washington. that is a major reason why we reject short-sided politics of spending promises that result in long term cost to taxpayers. of course, our state increased state debt approximately a billion dollars a year for 20 years, but since i took office, first year, we paid down $500 million in state debt, and this year, about a $1.5 billion. increasing a billion dollars every year, to balance the budget, they borrowed more money. remember the stimulus that begun...
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we are always enormously honored to have the washington vessel here. we coordinated counterterrorism efforts around the world. you can even more public this past year with a well-received book on the art of intelligence. behind those emerging from the world of shadows was a driving desire and ambition to educate american policymakers and especially the american public about the needs and uses of intelligence in our hyper connected world of asymmetrical threats. before that, he created his signal legend in afghanistan where he took roughly 110 cia officers and 400 plus special operations forces to overthrow the taliban and so for two years we have developed networks and building trusted allies would allies. we had a two-year hard work building this network and building this alliance. when 9/11 happened, we knew who we could depend upon who we could go to. it wasn't only collecting intelligence against al qaeda and the enemy, but other allies and mapping human terrain. along that path, there had been the hunt for osama bin laden and the first idea for dr
we are always enormously honored to have the washington vessel here. we coordinated counterterrorism efforts around the world. you can even more public this past year with a well-received book on the art of intelligence. behind those emerging from the world of shadows was a driving desire and ambition to educate american policymakers and especially the american public about the needs and uses of intelligence in our hyper connected world of asymmetrical threats. before that, he created his...
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"washington journal" at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> you're watching c-span2 weekdays featuring live coverage of u.s. senate. on weeknights, watch key public policy events and every weekend, the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and and get our schedules at her website, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> next, a discussion on gender issues. columbia professor patricia williams was joined by darlene never and salon.com rebecca traister. they talked about reproductive rights and pay equity. this is two hours and 10 minutes. [applause] >> we are very, very formalizes institute. [laughter] okay, i'm getting the sign. i am delighted to welcome you to the state of the union, gender, sexuality, and the 2012 election. this event is one of our events this year celebrating the 20th anniversary of the institute and we are delighted that you can all come out and that we can have our distinguished panel of guests. alondra nelson will introduce everyone and give
"washington journal" at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> you're watching c-span2 weekdays featuring live coverage of u.s. senate. on weeknights, watch key public policy events and every weekend, the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and and get our schedules at her website, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> next, a discussion on gender issues. columbia professor patricia williams was joined by darlene never...
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you get washington doing a one size fits all. it doesn't generally work for rural america and specifically wyoming. >> i should mention they been health care questions. we would like that extent the ability to respond to the question on all candidates so as we mover forward, we will pose a question to a particular candidate but then we around the panel and see if any of you would like to respond to the question. we will now continue with the question from mr. o'tow. that is from you mj. >> thank you. mr. otto on social security one of the suggested way to make social security solvent is reduce benefits for under 55. since the current workers pay for the benefit for retirees i assume we will be expected to pay for the benefit those over 55. what makes you think that the younger half of the population will agree to pay for something we may never get to use? >> social security went out of surplus in 2010. it's a pay as you go program. and so the idea that social security is something that is putting in is saving for the retirement i
you get washington doing a one size fits all. it doesn't generally work for rural america and specifically wyoming. >> i should mention they been health care questions. we would like that extent the ability to respond to the question on all candidates so as we mover forward, we will pose a question to a particular candidate but then we around the panel and see if any of you would like to respond to the question. we will now continue with the question from mr. o'tow. that is from you mj....
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that was the second g-20 after the one in washington. gordon brown helped -- tell the next g-20 in april that the london -- hled the next 6-20 in spril in london. we went out to abbey road. the wife said we should go knock on the door and see if we can get a toure. that is what they did. we knocked on doors. they give is a great toure -- gave us a great tour, including studio 2 where the beatles recorded all their stuff. they bought out all these pianos and keyboards. i fooled around on after probably 20 minutes. my disappointment was when i left, the presented me with a cd that was recording what i was doing. if i had known that, i wouldn't try to actually play something and do it well but i was just fooling around. >> >> he worked his way up and went to harvard law school and then one of his brothers emigrated out west to illinois to galena, where the mining industry was at its heyday. he arrived after a month's journey by ship, by stagecoach, by train and arrived in steamboat in this muddy mining town, order themselves in a log cabin,
that was the second g-20 after the one in washington. gordon brown helped -- tell the next g-20 in april that the london -- hled the next 6-20 in spril in london. we went out to abbey road. the wife said we should go knock on the door and see if we can get a toure. that is what they did. we knocked on doors. they give is a great toure -- gave us a great tour, including studio 2 where the beatles recorded all their stuff. they bought out all these pianos and keyboards. i fooled around on after...
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so what is that going to mean as it moves forward here in washington? >> i'm going to go back again. as i ended, the fact we have the same majority leader, senate, and i'm very glad we do. harry reid is a great leader. the fact he's still the majority leader doesn't mean there hasn't been a change. there has in fact been a significant change in the makeup of who people are as about their life experience. it's about what they bring to the table. the fact is in the state of new hampshire, for example, we have a woman governor, two women senators, when democrat and one republican and we now have two women democratic numbers of congress. they are in many ways. we also know they shall not pass the first vote and maybe they're going to be a pioneer in this kind of representation. i'm going to go back for a moment, by the way, jennifer. after thinking about this from i realized when i hear maggie hasan talk out why she got interested in politics, it starts with having a disabled child. we do talk about disability. it's often a candidate or the durst to bring t
so what is that going to mean as it moves forward here in washington? >> i'm going to go back again. as i ended, the fact we have the same majority leader, senate, and i'm very glad we do. harry reid is a great leader. the fact he's still the majority leader doesn't mean there hasn't been a change. there has in fact been a significant change in the makeup of who people are as about their life experience. it's about what they bring to the table. the fact is in the state of new hampshire,...